Scott Finn Liberty Analysis

The Drama of Liberty
Out of the 137 Lake Orion High School teachers and faculty, no adult stands out quite like Scott Finn. As a English, Speech, and Theater teacher at the large high school, Finn works with teenagers every day and is also responsible for mentoring the Lake Orion Thespian Troupe. However, Scott Finn is no ordinary teacher; he stands out as a unique individual in multiple ways that prevent him from blending in with the majority. Much like Frederick Douglass, a famed literate escaped slave, Scott Finn is made special by the qualities he holds that allow him to affect so many at LOHS and influence so many of his students, as well as the other teenagers he works with. Both outstanding men extended influence over a great many people,

The shows are done, for the most part, by the students themselves with the adults helping mainly in the background. However, teenagers are very busy people who are often involved in several different clubs, sports, and activities and, even when not busy, can be very difficult to motivate. Many young people do not devote the effort necessary for success to all the endeavors they participate in, but, no matter how much effort originally allocated for the productions, people always seem to find that they put more work into them than they planned to. A majority of the inducted thespians started off with the idea of just doing a show or two "for fun" but somehow end up being part of every show for their high school career and devoting their entire lives to this club. While most people are unsure how it happens, it is very clear the role that Scott Finn plays in these transformations. He has a way of speaking that pushes his adolescents to work harder and do more, that encourages them to be original, spontaneous, and to have fun with their work. He finds that small part inside the teenagers he works with that wants to be a part of something great and he nurtures it until we push ourselves to do better. Much like Frederick Douglass, who motivated his fellow slaves to escape by finding the small spark inside them that yearned for freedom and developing it into an inferno, he uses his motivational words to inspire the people around him to change by not changing. Douglass used the skills he had learned previously, reading and writing, and used them to encourage others to break free from bondage and live their life as an individual human being, motivating people to leave their chains behind them and become their own master – trying to end slavery in general and also encouraging slaves to escape from their masters – and, while the bonds Finn encourages his youth to leave